Hormone levels and cognitive function in postmenopausal midlife women

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Ryan, Joanne ^a,b   Stanczyk, Frank Z ^c   Dennerstein, Lorraine ^a   Mack, Wendy J ^c   Clark, Margaret S ^a   Szoeke, Cassandra ^a   Kildea, Daniel ^a   Henderson, Victor W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Estradiol; Estrone; Memory; Menopause; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; EPISODIC MEMORY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTRONE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL TASK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TREND STUDY; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD LIST RECALL;

EID: 84861220244     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2012.04.011     Document Type: Article

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